Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.

Is language a music? -- Structuralist perspectives. Structure and fu nction in musical repetition ; The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh ; Mediation as a principle of musical form : three examples -- Semiotic p olemics. Nattiez's foundations for musical semiotics ; Our time with th e druids : what (and how) we can recuperate from our obsession with seg mental hierarchies and other "tree structures" ; Why we still need Peir ce -- From gestures to discourses. Mind and body in music ; Opera opert a : realism and rehabilitation in La traviata ; A monument in song (199 6) : Beverly (Buffy) Sainte-Marie's "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" -- The messages of methods. Bartâok the progressive ; The art of music the ory and the aesthetic category of the possible ; Technique and signific ation in the twelve-tone method ; The project of abstraction and the pe rsistence of the figure in twentieth-century music and painting : on th e music of Elliott Carter, with a postscript on the Ninth symphony of B eethoven -- Resisting representation. Replaying my voice mail.